If you want to claim "CAP has no editorial control over TP," must confront a) emails of Neera killing TP's Israel criticism after CAP's pro-Israel funders complained theintercept.com/2015/11/05/lea… & b) Neera & Podesta plotting to change TP anti-Hillary headlines wikileaks.org/podesta-emails…
I agree TP has produced great young journalists (Lee Fang, Zaid Jilani, Faiz Shakar, others). And TP has now negotiated for more independence. But evidence is clear Neera interfered to make its content more pro-Hillary & less critical of Israel. Read it for yourself right here: 
Ironically, the person who has most maligned & "smeared" ThinkProgress journalists is Neera herself. She derided TP writers Jilani and Fang as "freaks," Shakar (now the @ACLU's Political Director") a "fucker," and in general said TP was staffed by "crazy leftists down there".
As for the critiques of @aseitzwald, those aren't based on his ex-CAP status, but the flaws & biases in his articles & what the Podesta/DNC emails revealed about how the Clinton campaigned viewed/used him. It makes his friends & centrists angry but journalists can be critiqued.
The evidence for the critiques of @aseitzwald is amply compiled in this article. Dismissing it all because of feelings toward the person who compiled it is lazy, empty ad hominem nonsense; if you want to refute it, you have to confront the evidence itself medium.com/mtracey/how-ms…
Finally, 2 reminders: 1) all of this erupted because @davidsirota committed the crime of reporting *the public votes & funding* of a hyped presidential candidate; 2) one of CAP's largest funders is one of the world's worst regimes & DC Dems are, for some reason, fine with this.
